The Sakura Obsession
The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms
by Naoko Abe
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appears in Best Science Books, History, and Nonfiction.
The remarkable 1,200year history of the Japanese cherry blossom treeand how it was saved from extinction by an English gardener.Collingwood "Cherry" Ingram first fell in love with the sakura, or cherry tree, when he visited Japan on his honeymoon in 1907. So taken with the plant, he brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England, where he...
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appears in Best Science Books, History, and Nonfiction.
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